The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-12-30

ages, which nave Deen PFOySSSt0U0ftQ
driven from one State cattle show Is
another, and won their exclusive prizes
over others just as good as the, BAR
ring their pampering, feeding, groom.
ing, washing and brushing as Aforesaid.
| do not much object to this e~xtraordi.
nary showing, as it exhibits the remark-
able development of which the breed IS
capable.
Such, therefore, is the condition Ell
many of the fashionable Short-horn
herds of our country, with like fashion
able pedigrees attached to them. show
ing all tho grand characteristics Of lheis
raoe. al this is said, not deFogat0Fv
to the breed, but as the growing prae
tioe of their leading propagatorS. My
friend alludes to my regard for the
Bates stock, Duchess and Oxford
tribes. l have always admired and
pra scd them for their superior dairy
qualities, when MI. Bates bred thom
with other good tribes in his possession,
as we'll as for their fine flesh qualities
in cows when out of milk. and steers
of their grades for the shanbIes, and |
see, by the way, that the judge himself
is somewhat addicted to the Bates
blood" in the use of a high-bred Oxfora
bull at the head Of his herd, in which
l applaud his judgment, whether milk
or flesh be his choice. 10 sum ar,
as the lawyers say, this argument, ESSAY,
or whatever it may be called. the
Short-horns still maintain, In my own
opinion. all the excellence which Ihaye
ever awarded them, not at all detract-
ing from the merits of any other breed
of cattle preferred by their several pos
SCISSORS which have been introduced in-
to our country, and so zealously advo-
Gated by them.
Now, for my own dairy conduct,
which Judge jones mildly critic SEES,
Some years ago l sold out the small
herd of Short-horns which / had maDy
years bred chiefly for the reason that.
as many of the fine herds of the kind
had left our state to western purchas-
ers, and the dairy interests had largely
extended among our farmers. making
Short-horns less saleable among them
than in yesrs past, and not altogether
su table for the butter making which I
had in contemplation, yet having on
hand q number of high grade Short
horn cows in use, / looked around for q
suitable breed to cross ahsss cows,
and on the descendents from which /
could rely for first class butter produc-
ton. OF all which / have materi-
ally examined / preferred the Cham
mel Island G~uernseys for their greater
size, richness of milk, and ethc golden
color of their butter mot at all degract-
ing in this choice from the value Of the
Jerseysl, as best suited for a market
near at hand, at considerably higher
prices above the fairly good article
from the ordinary dairies of our farms.
| bought a fine young imported Guern-
sey bull, whose dam was an exception
al good butter yielder, and crossed on
my cows. From the heifers thus pros
ducad have grown M a fine herd of
young cows, half to three-fonrths Id
Guernsey blood. which have answered
all my requirements in the yields of
their rich milk and superior excellence
of It's butter. and the advanced prices
which / obtained for ii. / have bred,
the six years in which / have
used that bull, and from successors TO
him Of equally good blood, seventy 81
females. and every one Of them
which has come into use from the pro-
duction of her first calf. proved a salts.
factory dairy COW ID all the points re-
quirod. and the young heifers. still iii
progress Of growth are equally prom
j sng.
But all occupations must some time
terminate. -Four score and seven years
creeping upon me, although stilI in
sound health my 5o0-acre island farm
within near sight OF the Oily and lis
steeples; umner hotels, private club
mansions and family Villas e~ncroaching
on its boarders. and value Of soil too
high for ordinarg farming (half Of it
recently disposed ofsfor park aud re-
crpafiva uspsl. NV dairy work na5rlv
concluded and herd gradually dlspers-
ing, | must bid adieu to the anxlcties as
well as the pleasures which an occupa-
ton OF nearly fifty years. from the
clearing Of an almost unbroken forest
into productive acres, has progressed,
aud for the few extending days allotted
me perhaps linger over the remaining
moiety. There, as / frequently visit il